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Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

peter1965 — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:57:30 GMT

Hello

folks. I need to remove a snapvault relations ship. Key here is that there is no relationship and was a typo when setting up the snapsched. no qtree exists for this relation ship and I wish to remove it

Thi smessage is taken from the log output of sv-smvi as it would return a error code 21 as it would led me to beleive is due to the fact the line below does not exists as a relation ship but is a pain in the side some place where I need to remove it as mentioned was fat fingered when inititally configuring.

SnapVault relationship found (additional) (primary = uschisan01:/vol/DS_DT_101/, secondary = uschivsan01:/vol/dt_backup_sv/DS_DT_102_q)

Output of snapvault status:

uschivsan01> snapvault status

Snapvault is ON.

Source Destination State Lag Status

uschisan01:/vol/DS_DT_101/ uschivsan01:/vol/dt_backup_sv/DS_DT_101_q Snapvaulted 37:44:46 Idle

uschisan02:/vol/DS_DT_201/ uschivsan01:/vol/dt_backup_sv/DS_DT_201_q Snapvaulted 36:15:31 Idle

uschivsan01>

Also from the system manager you can see from attached screen shot that the qtree does not exist -

Is it in the schedule do I need to destroy the schedule and re create it? How do I remove it?

Also when i run the snapvault destination command on each filer it does not show either.

Re: Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

pascalduk — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:44:14 GMT

Can you try stopping the incorrect snapvault entry on the snapvault destination filer?

snapvault stop /vol/dt_backup_sv/DS_DT_102_q

This should remove any registry information left behind.

Re: Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

peter1965 — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:39:03 GMT

I tried that – I get the following:

Could not delete qtree: destination qtree does not exist

Re: Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

davidrnexon — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:54:23 GMT

can you jump into the cli of your destination filer and type qtree show. Does the destination qtree exist ? double check that the qtree does not exist

Then check on your volume uschivsan01:/vol/dt_backup_sv for the snapvault snapshot, if it still exists delete the snapshot and then the relationship should disappear ?

Re: Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

peter1965 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:45:33 GMT

Hi – I assume you meant qtree status as the command to type.. None the less it does not appear there. Also no snap exists to delete. Hmm very strange isn’t it.. ? ☺

Re: Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

davidrnexon — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:01:45 GMT

what about on the source filer/volume, does the snapvault snapshot exist ?

Re: Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

peter1965 — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:50:17 GMT

No sir.

Re: Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

davidrnexon — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 06:35:06 GMT

Have you tried the following on the destination:

snapvault abort -h dstfiler:/vol_name/qtree_name ?

Re: Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

DOMINIC_WYSS — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:13:33 GMT

I would try to recreate the missing qtree and then do a snapvault stop, so it can delete the destination qtree and remove the snapvault relationship from the registry.

Re: Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

NKAAG — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:14:03 GMT

Hi,

Sory for the late answer bu I had the same issue. To solve it, I deleted all old snapshot and relation ship was removed itself.

Re: Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

franja_schmid — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:39:19 GMT

- if there is no entry in > snapvault destination

- there are no snapshots in any volume

- and the faulty connection is still showing in > snapvault status

- try on source > snapvault release /vol/<volume>/<qtree> destination:/vol/<snapvault_volume>/<qtree>

- filer output would be>

/vol/<volume>/<qtree> destination:/vol/<snapvault_volume>/<qtree> : No release-able destination found that matches those parameters.

Use 'snapvault destinations' to see a list of release-able destinations.

- then check with > snapvault status

it worked for my case...

Re: Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

ANTHONY_TRAN — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 01:59:56 GMT

Thank you! This worked for me.

Re: Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

RayHoltz — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:33:38 GMT

Franja,

I'm not sure how or why it worked, but that removed two stuck snapvault relationship for me also! Thank you!

Re: Pesky SnapVault relationship removal

AndyRawlins — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 14:58:41 GMT

I've spent a whole day fighting with this. Thanks you - I won't need to be worrying about this all wekend now 🙂

...though it didn't work on the next broken relationsjip i tried.